Kusan No. 7252 refrigerator car
Established as American Model Toys in 1948, AMT had challenged Lionel in three areas. First were streamlined passenger cars designed…
Read moreEstablished as American Model Toys in 1948, AMT had challenged Lionel in three areas. First were streamlined passenger cars designed…
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For toy train collectors looking to up their game to include more and collectible pieces without breaking the bank,…
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After Gilbert acquired the assets of American Flyer in 1938, it set out to develop a line of 3/16-inch scale…
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In the years after World War II, Lionel strengthened its presence in Canada by working closely with the heads of…
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Overlooked during the prewar era and for the first decade of the postwar, it inspired four O gauge diesels and…
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Lionel no. 2460 crane car During the prewar decades, crane cars became one of the hallmarks of the Lionel roster,…
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Lionel’s engineers reached greater heights in 1959 when the firm introduced the No. 44 U.S. Army mobile missile launcher. Lionel…
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Lionel’s automatic refrigerated milk car model No. 3672 is an updated version of the path-breaking car that Lionel enthusiasts of…
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Quality Craft’s Bob Weaver produced a lot of brass O gauge models in the early 2000s. One that had never…
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In the spring of 1936, industrial design guru Raymond Loewy came up with a streamlined winner for the Pennsylvania Railroad’s…
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In 1938, toy maker A.C. Gilbert purchased the American Flyer Manufacturing Co. Production was moved from Chicago to Connecticut (Gilbert…
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Four years after the Budd Co.’s Rail Diesel Car made its debut in 1949, Auburn Model Trains announced the first…
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